Microsoft trial to resume

An aide to US District Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson says the landmark Microsoft Corp anti-trust trial will resume on June 1.

The trial adjourned in late February and its resumption has been delayed while Judge Jackson heard another trial.

But an aide to the judge said, barring some unforeseen delay, he will resume hearing the non-jury trial on Tuesday, June 1, after the US Memorial Day holiday.

Microsoft went on trial in October 1988, on allegations by the Justice Department and 19 states that it violated the nation's anti-trust laws by abusing monopoly power in the market for its Windows personal computer operating system.

Each side presented 12 witnesses during its case-in-chief and each will present three rebuttal witnesses when the trial resumes, a process that may take a month or more.

Microsoft has called America Online Inc executive David Colburn as a hostile witness, along with Silicon Valley software executive Gordon Eubanks, the president and chief executive of Oblix Inc, and economist Richard Schmalensee.